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doctrine originally taught by the Hindoo sage Gautama Siddartha, surnamed Buddha, "the awakened or enlightened," in the sixth century b.c., and adopted as a religion by the greater part of the inhabitants of Central and Eastern Asia and the Indian Islands. Buddha's teaching is believed to have been atheistic; yet it wa…

A good-humored, slow-witted fellow; -- usually said of an elderly man. [Colloq.] Dickens.

ary bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle.

packages or divided into separate parts; in such shape that any desired quantity may be taken or sold. -- Laden in bulk, Stowed in bulk, having the cargo loose in the hold or not inclosed in boxes, bales, or casks. -- Sale by bulk, a sale of goods as they are, without weight or measure.

ass lens on one side for concentrating the light on any object; also, the lens itself. Dickens.

t or incapacitate for action. [Low] He had bunged up his mouth that he should not have spoken these three years. Shelton (Trans. Don Quixote).

Buoys, taken collectively; a series of buoys, as for the guidance of vessels into or out of port; the providing of buoys.

roach anything in a round-about manner, instead of coming directly to it; -- a metaphor taken from hunting. -- Bush bean (Bot.), a variety of bean which is low and requires no support (Phaseolus vulgaris, variety nanus). See Bean, 1. -- Bush buck, or Bush goat (Zoöl.), a beautiful South African antelope (Tragelaphus…

A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter. [Colloq.] Dickens.

He was a tall, fat, long-bodied man, buttoned up to the throat in a tight green coat. Dickens.

A boy servant, or page, -- in allusion to the buttons on his livry. [Colloq.] Dickens.

A hut; a cottage; a small house. [Obs.] Hearken a while from thy green cabinet, The rural song of careful Colinet. Spenser.

- Submarine cable. See Telegraph. -- To pay out the cable, To veer out the cable, to slacken it, that it may run out of the ship; to let more cable run out of the hawse hole. -- To serve the cable, to bind it round with ropes, canvas, etc., to prevent its being, worn or galled in the hawse, et. -- To slip the cable,…

To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does. When every goose is cackling. Shak.

The broken noise of a goose or a hen.

us to open and shut it, and to receive fares; an idle hanger-on about innyards. [Eng.] Dickens.

lly live in cylindrical cases, open at each end, and covered externally with pieces of broken shells, gravel, bits of wood, etc. They are a favorite bait with anglers. Called also caddice worm, or caddis worm. Caddice fly (Zoöl.), a species of trichopterous insect, whose larva is the caddice.

e who gets his living by trickery or begging. [Prov. or Slang] "The gentleman cadger." Dickens.

purposes. -- To have one's cake dough, to fail or be disappointed in what one has undertaken or expected. Shak.

To rouse from sleep; to awaken. If thou canst awake by four o' the clock. I prithee call me. Sleep hath seized me wholly. Shak. To call a bond, to give notice that the amount of the bond will be paid. -- To call a party (Law), to cry aloud his name in open court, and command him to come in and perform some duty requir…